Demise of single-use plastic bags? Pauline Lee Can you believe that about one million plastic bags are used every minute around the world? In the U.S. the average family accumulates 60 plastic bags in only four trips to the grocery store, costing the retailers $4 billion annually. Only 0.5-3 percent of all bags are recycled.…
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Features, March 2015
Word of the Month – March 2015
David Zapatka Reader and fellow Pickleball player Connie Wilkinson brought up an interesting topic. There are so many words with the prefix “dis” that are not words when dis is removed or are they words? How about disgruntled, dismayed, disturbed distilled, discombobulated, disrupted and distinguished? Connie asks, “Did you ever hear of anyone being gruntled,…
Features, March 2015
Helpful tips
R. Buchanan A neighbor recently came down with shingles and we are not talking about those things a builder puts on your roof. We are talking about a medical condition that the Mayo Clinic calls, “a viral infection that causes a painful rash.” The people I know who have had shingles use several adjectives in…
Features, March 2015
Rover’s Rest Stop – spring season of growth
Most everyone knows that their dogs must walk; it is in their DNA. But most people do not think about engaging their best friend in mental stimulation. What kind of life is it to just hang around the house all the time – get up, go for a walk, eat, lie around, eat, go for…
Features, March 2015
Happy Birthday to you! – March 2015
Happy 90th Betty Jo Clifton Betty enjoys a beautiful, long life blessed with children, grandchildren and one great-grandchild. “She counts her years by friends, not tears.” – John Lennon. “She knows old age ain’t for sissies.” – Bette Davis With love from her family, Terry and Sherry Clifton, Jackie and Jacqualine, Les and Marcia Clifton,…